My friend Larry Lisser, with whom we’ve helped exit Mobivox to Sabse and have collaborated on a few other startups together directly and indirectly (Momentum Telecom, IfByPhone and Fonolo) had a big idea a bit more than a year ago when he came up with the concept of Startup Camp Telephony, that would be run … Read more
The Skype black-out of last week proved something I have been saying all along. You can’t run a business on FREE. For me, I saw first hand what happens, as my team and I were on a client call using HiDef Conferencing (a client), which provides both dial in and Skype In options to reach … Read more
GoogleVoice (aka GrandCentral) is clearly the gift that keeps on giving. While my earn out payments have come to an end, it’s great to see that its still going to be free for calls to the USA and Canada in 2011. Hat tip-Charles Hamilton, GigaOm.
Today’s New York Times has the “first” interview with Skype’s new CEO Tony Bates. In the article there is the very direct message of how Skype see’s its future growth coming from the Mobile and Enterprise usage. In the same New York Times edition there is the article on the F.C.C. and Net Neutrality. The … Read more
There’s a revolution going on in voice communications, and it’s all about HD Voice. Today, in the UK, Orange (press release), one of the largest mobile operators in the world unveiled their new HD Voice service that works on a small number of handsets from Nokia and Samsung that move the voice traffic over the … Read more
Let’s face it, we live in a world where data and online services are in many ways becoming as important as voice. But voice still remains important. While I’ve been able to take the pain out of mobile roaming with Truphone Local Anywhere and softclients from Skype, Counterpath and yes, the GizmoVoice/Google Voice client that … Read more
No, I’m not referring in the headline to free calling, but free in so many others ways. Like with the opportunity to choose whatever carrier we want to use. Not so, reports Tom Keating, about Egypt. There VoIP is banned which impact Skype, and a host of others.
Lee Dryburgh is putting together another bang up eComm conference under the banner this April, and my agency, Comunicano, and I are proud to be able to support it as an official sponsor. The big news is how Lee has also been able to assemble a conference on the subject of Augmented Reality at the … Read more
The buzz is building around the Google Phone and the potential of Apple finally bringing out a Tablet. My questions about the tablet are simply this: 1) Will you handle Voice Apps (Skype, Truphone, iCall) the way the iPod Touch and iPhone already do? I mean, don’t you want to TELL someone what yu just … Read more
The crusty John C. Dvorak has been a fixture in PC Magazine for many years. This week he penned a piece about Google Voice and free calling. In the opinion column John raised a few points that need to be expounded upon, and I’m in the kind of mood to do just that! Point One: … Read more
